On/Off: Can South Koreans survive without the web?

Today I came across a news report in BBC News online edition “On/Off: Can South Koreans survive without the web?” link here, which reported the story of two families, living in the country which considered the world’s most wired society, who decided to live without the internet for one week. South Korea has the fastest average broadband speed in the world and were schoolchildren are asked to file their homework assignments online, were most TV channels are wired to homes over the internet and were their e-commerce market reached more than $600bn per year. It reports about their struggles and difficulties as well as the positive experiences they found like spending more time with each other, reading more books, playing board games and having meals together. Even after all these positive experiences, the articles concludes on this note by one of the family members
"Lose the internet for another seven days? It's a real 'No thank you,' I'm afraid. I don't want to go through this again."

This article really made me think about my internet use. On average, I spend at minimum six hours of everyday online for which I usually use it for researching, Facebook, youtube (and such like sites) and tutorial websites like Lynda.com. Since starting college, the longest break I have had from the internet has been five days, which occurred over the Christmas holidays. How difficult would I have found this exercise? How would I carry out research for college projects? How would I communicate with people without the use of Facebook and email? What would happen if I needed to query a feature or setting in a software package like photoshop? How would I find out directions without Google maps? How would I carry out module assignment on Moodle without the internet?
We, as a society, have come to rely so much on the internet to carry out daily activities. While the internet has contributed greatly to a more knowledgeable society are we dismissing other important contributors of knowledge like our family members, our work colleagues, our neighbours, our community members, our lectures in college. Have we lost the important face to face relationship and communication skills?
As an exercise for myself I will try to not use the internet for one week after finishing my masters to try and see how difficult life would be without the Internet.